The Republican journal., 1887-04-14
SearspOrt Locals.
Fred NJ. Harris spent Sunday in town.

Charles Mathews leaves Monday for st. Paul
where he expects to lind a situation
The fine row boat disposed of by ticket by Mr..
Il. d. Field was drawn by j. W. Black.
Sunday was uncomfortlbly warm the thcrmom
eter registering 10 in the shade and 30 in the sun
Edgar Dukeman and wife left by train last week
for Lancaster Pa, to visit Mr.. Dukeman's people
John Lancaster has been appointed agent of the
International Express, and hereafter all goods
are received via. Belfast.
j. II, sullivan has fitted up an Office in his store
for the custom house The books and document,
were moved in last saturday.
Quarterly meeting at the NJ. Z. Church next sun
day. Lcve-feast AT nine a. Preaching at ten
thirty by Rev. Z. +. Libby. The NJ. +. >ocable
will meet at the ocstry this Thursday evening
April l4th.
The town in darkness Monday evening on
account of the illness OF lampltghtcr Hamilton.
We are happy to announce his conyale>rence and
have doubt he viii let hi, light shine in the flu
turc
At Parish meeting Of the Congregational
society held at the vcstry Tuesday afternoon it
unanimously voted to extend an invitation To
Rev. K. G. Iiarbutt 10 remain another year from
July next.
As showing the changes of our Maine climate ice
n!ace in the harbor last Thursday night to quite
/ ali extent. sunday came in like a July morning
giving hazy sumncIy iouk to the atmosph here the
weather was 50 warm.
Sch. Mary Farow has ju-t discharged a load of
corn and mildings for Nickerson. The cargo con
sisted Of 5000 bushels Of corn and % sacks Of mid
| tlings and discharged by " l.. Towc in
twenty hours, and but for the breaking of the stage
would have been done in Il much shorter time.
| Friday, April ,th Thomas II, Dccrow hauled
rocks weighing three tons more drag,
The crust, over snow five or siN feet deep. His
! horses weigh twelve hundred each and he worked
until ten o'clock in the forenoon before they began
to break through 50 he was obliged to discontinue.
! There has always been OF less competition
| between l.. \. Dow of Sears Island and James
| Treat across on Cape .geilison. This year Treat
has scored II lap having caught one salmon sunday
ana two Monday-but the race is not always to the
swift, nor the battle tc the strong, and are still
betting on Dow for the season
! The Easter concert at the Congre gatunal church
was fully attended and very successfully conduct
e't. some OF the pieces sung were very line, par
! ticuarly the duet by Miss Mida Treat and Miss
Mamie smith. superintendent Merrill III his
| polt for the last quarter of the school gave the
average attendance as ffty-sey
| Our traders a unit i'll their decision to with
draw III! frc 4hs from the railroads. and if fairly
treated will hereafter give all their patronage to
| the Boston boats. This will affect the wholesale
| dealers in Portland rs many of traders who
| iuy largely there will be obliged henceforth to
/ buy IN Boston. The inter state commerce law is
eyidentIy not bonanza for an, body but the rail
roads.
| Capt Leroy Dow. WHO arrived home last week,
| la spent the past two Years in Japan in an at.
tempt to adjust the loss of ship Clariss B. Carver,
ran into ANA sunk June sh, 49,, by the English
steamship tIomorsam-hire, and Upon which there
! have aready been three trials in the English
courts in Japan, all favorable to Capt, Dow. 1t
now expected another trial VIII be had in the Adj
mrnlty Court at Loudon in June.
col L, u, Cary,luf RocklanI Chief mastering
| officer ot the department of Maine G.. \. Il being
here on visit to hi sister mu,le Il call upon Free
mtu Mroilvcry ru-t lat Thurs day evening and
| poke words of encouragement to the veterans.
He met quite Il number of his old regiment
the ith Ne. amt it very interesting to listen to
thrna they Fought over all the old battles around
the camp fire after the post meeting
David y. McrithcW, Who died on board Bark
| As,H W. spies on the voyage from Iloilu to Bo-.
ton. reported last week, was sick only ten DAYS
aul lett the deck hut It day OF two before his
lcath i> disease was dro}.y, and probably
went To the heart Mr.. Mcrithcw was Il Young
mar of sterling qualities, and had hosts of friends
in town who ,ieplorc his untimtly death and deep
iy y mrathize with his widowed mother ami fam
uy
Last j;stl some of public spirited citizens
hired Il special constable to protect the trout in
swan Lake during the spawning season Good re
suit are already J. H. Lane and A. l.. Mos
man report having seen large quantities of small
fr! PLAYING inside the line of ice on the shores of
The Lake the water in thr pond having risen, lc,v-
in@ Il water space iu~iotc the lee Mr.. Mosn;tn,
who Is quite an expert in fish, cNaminrd the fry
very c!o>tI! and lronouHces them Young Goose
Pond trout,
ship krnnrbec, which sunk at her moorings at
san Pedro, was lifted March 3d Capt Ford writes
uscr date April End that the divers at work
patching hcr bottom, Fifty feet of keel were gone
at each end and stern post and rttl,icr broken. 1t
NN, llnpctl t" tow her t. san Francisco this week,
nd 1t is believed that the underwriters Will he able
to repair and return her to- her for less than
S4o,ooo. Capt Ford say he has concluded to give
tp the ship amt would 90 to sam Francisco soon to
look for something else tu In.
nr Sanger wa, telephoucJ saturday afternoon
to come To ~careport to operate ON Capt. Joseph
"fh i"fh' hLitlt' "I'I ~ ltredNlnG >tfanSu SuiatS'
was convinced that the roads were inpassible for
carriages 50 he took sleigh. AZ stockton he was
t,a, T ~ W 80 i, " i't"-li ~ ''W Wv i
cd over about ten at ght started ON his return
l"a4lhE itMlSht ram before morning AZ m>anEht
drift which ti1rrJ his sjch over and pitched thr
I Tit hta"hg, lnnSe'l IN Ilt iG'nS anu iIeS
indefinite ri,Inigbt walk he was dragged over the
lri an4 nudity road and finally brought t"a stand
LrimlmrI but moi nersnnaliv injured he picked IN
hi scattered traps and wendell his way home
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wear Bangor onntlrrcial
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l'einh nave nearly c"hll'ttH SEQ" h't Will car
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